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Overview

Karen L. Weihs is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields within psychology and medicine, with notable contributions to clinical psychology, oncology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's work focuses on multiple main topics, including:

  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
  • Family support in illness
  • Anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes
  • Art therapy and mental health
  • Music therapy and health
  • Childhood cancer survivors' quality of life

Frequent publication venues highlight a concentration in psychology and behavioral medicine, including:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psycho-Oncology
  • Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • The Arts in Psychotherapy
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Noteworthy recent papers authored or co-authored by Weihs include:

  • Insomnia and Fatigue Symptom Trajectories in Breast Cancer: A Longitudinal Cohort Study (2021), published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • The evolution and development of the uniquely human capacity for emotional awareness: A synthesis of comparative anatomical, cognitive, neurocomputational, and evolutionary psychological perspectives (2020), published in Biological Psychology
  • Improvements in mindfulness, interoceptive and emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal emotion management following completion of an online emotional skills training program (2023), published in Emotion
  • The role of emotion processing in art therapy (REPAT) intervention protocol (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Affective agnosia: a core affective processing deficit in the alexithymia spectrum (2020), published in BioPsychoSocial Medicine

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers, including:

  • Richard D. Lane
  • Johanna Czamanski-Cohen
  • Ryan Smith
  • John J. B. Allen
  • Miri Cohen

Karen L. Weihs's interdisciplinary work integrates psychological perspectives with medical and behavioral aspects of health, with a significant focus on emotional awareness, cancer care, and therapeutic interventions such as art and music therapy. Their scholarly output includes a combination of empirical clinical studies and theoretical approaches within these domains.

Best Publications

  • Multiple measurements of depression predict mortality in a longitudinal study of chronic hemodialysis outpatients

    Paul L. Kimmel;Rolf A. Peterson;Rolf A. Peterson;Rolf A. Peterson;Karen L. Weihs;Karen L. Weihs;Karen L. Weihs;Samuel J. Simmens;Samuel J. Simmens;Samuel J. Simmens

  • Immunologic function and survival in hemodialysis patients

    Paul L. Kimmel;Terry M. Phillips;Terry M. Phillips;Terry M. Phillips;Samuel J. Simmens;Samuel J. Simmens;Samuel J. Simmens;Rolf A. Peterson;Rolf A. Peterson;Rolf A. Peterson

  • Psychosocial factors, behavioral compliance and survival in urban hemodialysis patients

    Paul L. Kimmel;Rolf A. Peterson;Karen L. Weihs;Samuel J. Simmens

  • Survival in hemodialysis patients: the role of depression.

    Paul L. Kimmel;Karen Weihs;Rolf A. Peterson

  • Psychological Distress and Help Seeking in Rural America

    Danny R. Hoyt;Rand D. Conger;Jill Gaffney Valde;Karen Weihs

  • Interdialytic weight gain and survival in hemodialysis patients: Effects of duration of ESRD and diabetes mellitus

    Paul L. Kimmel;Maria P. Varela;Rolf A. Peterson;Karen L. Weihs

  • Aspects of quality of life in hemodialysis patients.

    P L Kimmel;R A Peterson;K L Weihs;S J Simmens

  • Natural Disaster and Depression: A Prospective Investigation of Reactions to the 1993 Midwest Floods

    Elizabeth M. Ginexi;Karen Weihs;Samuel J. Simmens;Danny R. Hoyt

  • Families, health, and behavior - A section of the Commissioned Report by the Committee on Health and Behavior: Research, Practice, and Policy Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health and Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences

    Karen Weihs;Larry Fisher;Macaran Baird

  • Can addressing family relationships improve outcomes in chronic disease? Report of the National Working Group on Family-Based Interventions in Chronic Disease.

    Lawrence Fisher;Karen L. Weihs

  • Affective agnosia: Expansion of the alexithymia construct and a new opportunity to integrate and extend Freud's legacy

    Richard D Lane;Karen L Weihs;Anne Herring;Alex Hishaw

  • Behavioral compliance with dialysis prescription in hemodialysis patients.

    P L Kimmel;R A Peterson;K L Weihs;S J Simmens

  • Bupropion sustained release versus paroxetine for the treatment of depression in the elderly

    Karen L. Weihs;Edmund C. Settle;Sharyn R. Batey;Trisha L. Houser

  • An 8-week multicenter, parallel-group, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of sertraline in elderly outpatients with major depression.

    Lon S. Schneider;J. Craig Nelson;Cathryn M. Clary;Paul Newhouse

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Qigong/Tai Chi Easy on Cancer-Related Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors

    Linda K. Larkey;Linda K. Larkey;Denise J. Roe;Karen L. Weihs;Roger Jahnke

  • Psychologic functioning, quality of life, and behavioral compliance in patients beginning hemodialysis.

    Paul L. Kimmel;Rolf A. Peterson;Karen L. Weihs;Samuel J. Simmens

  • The bodymind model: A platform for studying the mechanisms of change induced by art therapy.

    J. Czamanski-Cohen;K.L. Weihs

  • Loss of primary cilia occurs early in breast cancer development

    Ina Menzl;Lauren Lebeau;Ritu Pandey;Nadia B Hassounah

  • Dyadic Relationship Conflict, Gender, and Mortality in Urban Hemodialysis Patients

    Paul L. Kimmel;Rolf A. Peterson;Karen L. Weihs;Nicole Shidler

  • Efficacy of sertraline in severe generalized social anxiety disorder: results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

    Michael R. Liebowitz;Nicholas A. DeMartinis;Karen Weihs;Peter D. Londborg

  • Bupropion sustained release versus paroxetine for the treatment of depression in the elderly

    K. L. Weihs;E. C. Settle;S. R. Batey

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf A. Peterson
Rolf A. Peterson George Washington University
Annette L. Stanton
Annette L. Stanton University of California, Los Angeles
Richard D. Lane
Richard D. Lane University of Arizona
Jennifer L. Krull
Jennifer L. Krull University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Segrin
Chris Segrin University of Arizona
David Reiss
David Reiss Yale University
Lawrence Fisher
Lawrence Fisher University of California, San Francisco
John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Matthias R. Mehl
Matthias R. Mehl University of Arizona
Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles

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